DeHummer

Now, let's talk about DeHummers.…A DeHummer is an effect that will help you get rid of…an unwanted frequency that is usually caused by powerlines…from lights and electronics.…I'm sure you have heard a loud hum…that seems to come from everywhere…and almost totally ruins the good audio…that you want to retain.…Hum in your audio is never good, and quite frankly,…should have been caught during the recording process.…However, sometimes you don't have a say…in which audio you get and who recorded it.…

So, you might end up with audio that has hum in it.…Let's go ahead and go to the next clip.…Let's marking in and out points there,…and let's just play this.…(sample audio clip with hum)…As you can hear there was a hum frequency…in this particular clip.…

We need to get rid of that.…For that, let's go ahead and add the DeHummer effect,…and we have two, the DeHummer, and the DeHummer (Legacy).…Let's go ahead and add that to this clip.…Now let's go ahead and click on the Edit... button,…so that we can start applying the DeHummer.…

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10/21/2015

Good audio makes for great video, and with Premiere Pro, you can make your audio sound great. In this installment of Premiere Pro Guru, Luisa Winters walks through the process of mixing audio—adjusting levels, adding transitions, and more—and then stepping it up a notch with some commonly used effects, such as EQ, reverb, and de-essing. She also includes tips for changing the length and speed of your audio tracks, recording scratch tracks, and exporting audio separately from video.